Prosperity's Facts. National Wealth and Trade Rise
A condensed overview of Vanderlip's analysis on rising prosperity under McKinley's administration. The piece highlights surging iron and steel trade, growing exports, increased money in circulation, bank deposits, gold reserves, larger small denomination bills, and farm animal values. It urges Nebraska voters to credit Republican leadership and contrasts prosperity with Bryanism.
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Saturday Evening Post
Philadelphia
Frank A. Vanderlip
the Treasury
United States
Vanderlip
Agricultural Department
When Daddy Lights the Tree
A Woman's Home Companion poem celebrates Christmas in a humble home. It recalls family care, savings secreted for the night, and the glow of a tree as love keeps the household close to heaven. The father’s aging yet merry presence anchors a scene of shared joy, generosity, and memory across generations.
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Daddy
Christmas Eve Visit to an Evicted Irish Farmer
In Macroom Cork a Whitehaired farmer and his wife shelter a stranger at their cottage as he explains they face eviction for heavy taxes from Lord Leech after fifty years on the land. The visitor offers help, recalling the rising of 67 and the family’s scattered kin. Saltpeter couldn’t save us.
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Macroom
County Cork
Mary
Redmond O’hara
Mountain Gap
Western Australia
America
Santa Claus
Redmond O'Hara
Redmond
Lord Leech
Redmond O Hara's Christmas Gift and Pudding Secret
A Scottish farmer hosts a Christmas visitor who reveals he is Redmond O Hara, estranged son of a convict family now wealthy in America. He gifts a bag of sovereigns, restoring the family, who plan to celebrate with feasts, while the narrator recounts a Christmas pudding recipe and hints at a long preservation for festive use.
Nopurse and Miss Many Millions Christmas Eve Proposal
Nopurse informs Truth he proposed to Miss Many Millions on Christmas Eve. Gotbills asks if he should congratulate him. Nopurse replies he does not know since she claimed she was not Santa Claus, and that was all she said.
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Nopurse
Santa Claus
Mistletoe Lore From Druids of Ages Past
A lyric fragment evokes ancient Druids in white robes and a gold knife, describing a fall moonlit ritual and a lingering ghostly presence. It shifts to Christmas imagery where maidens kiss beneath mistletoe as winter storms rage and berries gleam among dark green leaves.
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Moonligh
Gift ideas and Christmas origins from a past issue
The piece lists clever gift options like hat boxes, ornate accessories, and novelty items made of clever materials such as leather silhouettes and candy filled woods. It also notes early Christmas celebrations starting in 98 and the later adoption as a Christian festival with December 25 fixed in the fifth century.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
The Christmas Girl Poem from Life Magazine
A whimsical Life poem depicts a festive scene with snow on her brow holly on her cheek starry eyes and mistletoe overhead. Bright wreaths and berries frame the image while the author notes the seasonal radiance and coy glances in a nostalgia rich verse.
A Midnight Encounter in Harlem Life
A note from Harlem Life describes a midnight encounter as Santa Claus jokes about visiting homes and checking for dogs, adding a wry urban tone to the seasonal scene. The fragment hints at humorous social observation rather than a formal event.
One Is Enough for Christmas Turkey Bargain
A conversation has Col Hawker offering Eph two turkey gifts for Christmas. Eph jokes about preferring a two dollar bill if the same value remains. Kris Kringle is humorously referenced as always guiding the turkey delivery to Hawker’s home the night before Christmas.
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Eph
Col. Hawker
Kris Kringle
Chris’mas
Persistent Santa Visit Tales of Uncle John
A mother asks why her son Sensible Jimmie insists on visiting Uncle John for Christmas. He replies that Uncle John has no smoke consumers on his chimneys, so Santa Claus can surely get into his house without obstruction.
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Jimmie
John
Santa Claus
Easily Pleased. A Christmas Wish from Jim and Pa
A child named Jim asks for any gift he can get but warns his father not to give him something he does not want. The exchange shows a simple, contented holiday dynamic between Jim and his father.
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Jim
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